The Effectiveness of Oversight of Governor Performance in Light of the Disruption of Provincial Councils in 2019

This research aims to identify aspects of oversight over the governor's performance in the absence of the oversight role of provincial councils, the body with the original mandate to exercise political and administrative oversight over the performance of the local executive authority. To achieve this goal, the researcher employed an inductive approach, which proceeds from the individual to the whole in order to arrive at a thorough analysis. This research sheds light on the extent to which the federal authorities at the center, along with independent bodies, exercise their oversight role over the governor, and whether the suspension of provincial councils has any impact on this role.At the conclusion of the research, the researcher reached a number of conclusions, the most important of which is that the suspension of provincial councils does not prevent the activation of political oversight, which is undertaken by the Iraqi Parliament under the law, which grants the legislature the right to dismiss the governor based on a proposal from the Prime Minister.